José Manuel Valenzuela is Emeritus Researcher of Conacyt and Professor Emeritus of the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef) where he has been professor-researcher of the Department of Cultural Studies. At this university he has been director of Department, Academic Secretary General and director of the journal Frontera Norte. His research addresses issues related to culture and identity, cultural frontiers, social movements, youth cultures, urban sociology and popular culture.

Lisa Blackmore is profesor at the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex, where she is currently Director of Global Studies and Director of the MA in Environment, Society and Culture. At University of Essex she collaborates with the Essex Collection of Latin American Art (ESCALA) and curates exhibitions for the university gallery Art Exchange. She has taught at the universities of Caracas and Leeds, and has worked as a curator, journalist and translator.

Federico Neiburg is a professor of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is also a Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and coordinator of the Center for Research on Culture and Economy (NuCEC) together with Fernando Rabossi.

Vittoria Borsó is professor emeritus of Spanish, French and Italian philology at the University of Düsseldorf. She has been a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation and Senior Fellow of IKKM, Weimar. She has been a member of the DFG evaluation commission for European and American literatures. Her books and articles focus on Cultural Migrations, Memory and Writing, Visual Cultures and World Literature.

Rossana Barragán Romano is professor emeritus at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres. She has been director of the Archives of La Paz, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and director of the journal T'inkazos, Revista en Ciencias Sociales de Bolivia and Director of the Latin American Desk at the International Institute for Social History and researcher at the same institute (IISG Amsterdam).

Alberto Javier Olvera Rivera is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales of the Universidad Veracruzana since 1981. He is member of the National System of Researchers Level III, and of the Mexican Academy of Science. His lines of research are: Theories of Civil Society and Democratic Innovation, and Social Movements and Models of Society-State Relationship in Mexico and Latin America. He also studies the institutions and practices of the justice system and subnational authoritarianism in Mexico.

Valeria Manzano holds a PhD in history. She is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) of Argentina and a professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Social Studies at Universidad Nacional San Martín, where she currently directs the PhD in History.